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The Official USMB Trump Healing The Country Thread: "Trump says he will 'heal the country'"
Let us start with these few tidbits:
Surrounded by family, Trump says he will 'heal the country'
Donald Trump took to the stage at his campaign watch party in West Palm Beach, Florida, and was met with loud cheers and chants of "USA, USA, USA".
There were lot of people on stage with him - including his running mate JD Vance, his wife Melania Trump and campaign staff.
The Republican told jubilant crowds in Florida: "America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate".
6 November 2024
and...
Donald Trump: ‘We’re Going to Help Our Country Heal’
The former president claims victory as Associated Press, major networks call race for Trump
All of this while major MAGA people all over the web have been posting, supporting, and commenting on:
After Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning
We can’t just say ‘Oh well we’re all Americans in the end’ and pretend that everything is okay. Everything is not okay."Those in the news media...They are enemies of the American people, whom they openly despise, and there can be no real unity with them no matter what they might say in the future."
Needless to say there appears to be a bit of cognitive dissonance here. What motivated me to start this thread are news articles that keep popping up like this one:
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump complained on Friday that American flags would still be lowered to half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter during Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.
President Joe Biden ordered flags lowered to half-staff for 30 days from the day of Carter's death on Dec. 29, as is custom when a U.S. president dies.
Trump, who has announced plans to attend Carter's memorial service in Washington on Jan. 9, took issue in a Truth Social post on Friday with the flags remaining in the mourning position during his swearing-in ceremony.
"The Democrats are all 'giddy' about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at 'half mast' during my Inauguration," Trump said, employing a term frequently used for the lowered position when the flag is on a ship.
"They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves," Trump said.
Trump said that due to Carter's death last week the American flag would "for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast."
"Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out," he said.
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House had no plans to reconsider the decision.
(Reporting By Steve Holland; additional reporting by Gabriella Borter; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)"
Doesn't seem too healing to me. So let us keep a list, however incomplete, of how Trump fails to keep up with his sometimes lofty promises and statements.